The Real Minimum Wage Is Always Zero

[psk836]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... um-wage-g/

“In response to recent minimum wage increases in California, fast food restaurants across the state are shifting to automation to get rid of wage-earning humans.“

[Chester Cheesewright]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... um-wage-g/

“In response to recent minimum wage increases in California, fast food restaurants across the state are shifting to automation to get rid of wage-earning humans.“

► Republican dogma

[psk836]

California reality.

[Chester Cheesewright]

California reality.

► If you pull the floor from under employees wages , all their wages will drop

[psk836]

California reality.

► If you pull the floor from under employees wages , all their wages will drop

And if you flood the economy with 15 million unskilled laborers, all American wages will plummet to Third World levels.

And if you then create an artificial wage floor then employers will simply take the REAL total wages it is willing to pay and spread it across fewer workers at your artificial rate.

[Chester Cheesewright]

California reality.

► If you pull the floor from under employees wages , all their wages will drop

And if you flood the economy with 15 million unskilled laborers, all American wages will plummet to Third World levels.

And if you then create an artificial wage floor then employers will simply take the REAL total wages it is willing to pay and spread it across fewer workers at your artificial rate.

► I think most first world economies have a minimum wage

[brookboy123]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... um-wage-g/

“In response to recent minimum wage increases in California, fast food restaurants across the state are shifting to automation to get rid of wage-earning humans.“

REGULATED capitalism is the best economic system.

Minimum wage laws are necessary.

[pete]

Yes it's better to have a handful of people making a "minimum wage" than a bunch making a fair wage. I'm sure you hippies are right

[MiltantCentrist]

Republicans say zero is a "fair wage".

[Chester Cheesewright]

Yes it's better to have a handful of people making a "minimum wage" than a bunch making a fair wage. I'm sure you hippies are right

► Nobody has defined “fair” yet.

How do we know what that is?